Texas doctors at Anderson Cancer Centre have carried out the world’s first partial skull and scalp transplant. This has opened up a new frontier in transplant surgery.
The recipient, 55-year-old Jim Boysen, a software developer, expects to leave the hospital on Thursday.
The surgery, which lasted for 15 hours, is thought to be the first skull-scalp transplant from a human donor, as opposed to an artificial implant or a simple bone graft.